Type.



Wfn 65560- PATENIED Nov. I3; 1966'.

H GA MMETER.

TYPE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31. 1905.

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HARRY C. GAMM'ETER, OF CLEVELAND, CHIC, `ASSlCdOR TO' THE Ali/IERICAN MULTIGRAPH COMPANY, OF

CORPORATION 0F CHIC.

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TYPE..

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented Nov. i3, i906.

Application led July 31,1905. Serial No. 271,927.

To all whom 211'; may concern:

Be it known that l, HARRY C. GAMMETER, a citizen of the United States, Aresiding at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Chio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Type, of which .the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My application, Serial No. 236,463, iiled December l2, 1901i, for a duplicatingmachine shows a printing-drum and a supplydrum each having channels along its surface adapted to carry type, there being mechanism to feed the type from one drum to the other. The channels are comprised between rails set into the drum, and the t e have grooves on their opposite sides, w 'ch receive projections from the rails, whereby the type are held against radial displacement. To facilitate the transfer of the type from one drum to the other, allowing each type to be engaged and transferred by itself, Itaper the under side, which `enables individual type in a continuous row to be conveniently en# gaged on its under side. The ap li'c'ation referred to claims a machine with w ch the type is used.

The present application relates to the type itself.

The invention comprises type having features of construction as above referred to and as set out in claims herewith. u

The drawings clearly illustrate the invention.

Figure i is a perspective view of the type. Figs. 2 and?, are side elevations thereof, taken at positions at right angles to each other.,` Fig. l is a cross-section through a portion of the periphery of the type-drum employing my type; and Fie. 5 is a longitudinal section'through such drum, showing a `rside up when original y placed in the InaroW of type in place.

Referrmgifirst to the drum, 1 represents the body thereof, having set into its periphery rails 2, which are -shaped in cross-section.

Between consecutive rails there is thus provided a channel having a restricted opening and an enlarged base portion.

The type comprises a head 3, a' shank 4, and a base 5. For conveniencel shall herein call that portion of the type on which the character is formed its face l and the opposite end its foot and those two sides other.

which extend substantially from the top and bottom of the character the edges, and l shall use the term sides to designate those sides of the type which extend from the sides ofthe character.

Between the head and base of the type and on the upper and lower edges of the shank are parallel grooves 6, directl)T opposite each These grooves are ada ted to receive the overhanging ends of the :li-bars 2. i

The base of the type have their sides 7 tapered toward an edge, this tapering being on the face which is at right angles to the grooved face. Thus by reasonof the taper mechanism may be inserted between contiguous type to feed them. The taper .is conined to the bottom portion of the type, which allows consecutive type to snugly abuteach other, as shown in Fig. 5. The type may be thus fed without canting and may be firmly held in assembled lines.

It is to' be noted that the under side of the heads 3 bear directly on the outer face ofthe T-bars 2 Therefore a irm seating takes place, and there is no pressure on the bottom edge. Moreover, the heads 3 project further than the base in a direction corresponding to the up-and-down direction of the printed character, givingthe type-body the ap earance of a' letter T. This construction a lows the characters to be made of the desired size and the characters of successive rows to come as close together as desirable, while still enabling the T-bars to be large enough for the desired stiffness and strength.

Tf the type are toimitate the letters of a type-writer, they should be all of the same width from side to side. This same width continues below the head and down the base to the point Where the taper begins. On one edge o the head 3 is formed a slight groove 8 to assist in arrangin the characters right chine.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. An individual type having grooves in its op osite edges, the sides ofthe type being paral el 'from substantially the top to points adjacent 'to the grooves, the type being tan pered inwardly below the grooves, whereby consecutive types may firmly abut each other while allowing mechanism to engage between them' below.

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2. individual ty e having) a groove' on its edge, thesides of t e type ein parallel from the upper en d of the body we l toward the bottom, whereby the'l types may rmly abut eachother, s'aid type having the lower portionof its body tapered toward the bottom',`co1nbined with'ja' rail having an edge adapted to occupy thegrooves of consecutive type. 'l j 3. An individual type having groovesl in its op osite edges, the sides lof the type being paral el from substantially the lower 'fa e of the rooves u Ward and being ta ere inwar y beneat the' grooves towar the bottom ofthe type. A

4. As a new article of manufacture, a oomf paratively short type having an individual raised character on its lfacie and having grooves in its opposite edges near said face, the-sides of the type being parallel from substantially the lower face of the grooves u yWard to the-u per edge of the body, t e

ARRY cxGAMME'rER.

Witnesses:

E. B. vGiLcHRIsr, ALBERT H. BATES.

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